Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.